super mario bros. (NES) do you remember video games from the 80’s? that’s when i played my first games – the super mario brothers / duck hunt double cartridge on a nintendo my parents bought me as a birthday present…
27. tablets – the final frontier
apple ipad these are the voyages of the starship ente… oh nevermind. tablets, man. tablets. they’re the latest front on which the mobile wars rage. desktops and laptops have pretty much become commoditized, and even the cell phone war has…
26. public information is, uh… public?
i don’t know whether or not to tag this post as part of my common damn sense series. but what i do know from this story is that torrents can cause floods. by now you might have read a story…
25. microsoft’s mobile hail mary – windows phone 7
microsoft’s kin two in mobile device tech, the last two years have generally been the era of two companies – apple and google. apple successfully took the “device” approach, focusing all of their efforts into the iphone line. google focused…
24. iphone’s antenna issues – motorola with the burn, new york times with the assist.
apple iphone 4 in what seems like the eternal saga of apple and google’s android (for my younger readers, it’s kind of like edward and jacob, just for phones), the war continues to play out in the media. generally the two tech…
23. the great escape (chinese internet addiction center edition)
probably not this cool while i do always tout that we are living in the digital age, there is a line that can be drawn between “web enthusiast” and addiction. a web enthusiast may be bored without his or her…
22. the hollywood whitewash
left: prince dastan from the two thrones, right: jakegyllenhaal now that it’s out, i find myself going back in my mind to seeing the previews for the new prince of persia movie last year. i recall watching it a couple…
21. IBM spreading malware, google celebrates pac-man in style
i know it’s been a while, and yes, i’m still alive. now that that’s out of the way: i’m sure some of you have had to attend some sort of conference for work or school before. generally these are pretty…
20. the difference between “pirate” and “jerk”
yes, i know i’ve been slacking for about a week – but if i’m going to be writing about anything related to consumer technology and/or tech news, the last couple of weeks of available material has been all apple all…
19. adobe and apple and microsoft, oh my!
a lot of you that read anything about mobile tech probably know that one of the sticking points with the iphone and the newly released ipad is that these apple mobile products don’t support flash – and on that topic…